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Re: Zed AI

#191

Interesting that this seems to be the announcement of Anthropic's Copilot alternative: > A private beta of the Claude 3.5 Sonnet's new Fast Edit Mode, optimized for text editing. This upcoming mode achieves unprecedented speed in transforming existing text, enabling near-instantaneous code refactoring and document editing at scale.

Sounds a lot like existing Claude integration + Caching (as most queries rely on relatively static code context)

Re: Zed AI

#192
excited to use zed, but the AI chat panel does not work on a Mac host connected to a Linux guest.

Re: Zed AI

#193
Is all the overhead required to use the AI features easily disabled with a feature flag such that zero CPU cost and zero network transmission occurs?

Re: Zed AI

#194

Interesting that this seems to be the announcement of Anthropic's Copilot alternative: > A private beta of the Claude 3.5 Sonnet's new Fast Edit Mode, optimized for text editing. This upcoming mode achieves unprecedented speed in transforming existing text, enabling near-instantaneous code refactoring and document editing at scale.

yeah that caught my eye too, looks to me like speculative editing (they mentioned that its faster to each its input) + prompt-caching it would literally build up on all the tech they have

Re: Zed AI

#195
post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did Google make you less productive when looking up about code? If it did not then I dont see how looking up with AI can be worse.

What’s the point of this argument? If the user you’re replying to has been on this site, they’ve probably seen this counterpoint before. “Aha!” They say, “I only realized my folly after the 25th time someone pointed out googling also takes time!” Maybe there’s some interesting difference in experiences that shouldn’t just be dismissed.

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Re: Zed AI

#196
post #191

Interesting that this seems to be the announcement of Anthropic's Copilot alternative: > A private beta of the Claude 3.5 Sonnet's new Fast Edit Mode, optimized for text editing. This upcoming mode achieves unprecedented speed in transforming existing text, enabling near-instantaneous code refactoring and document editing at scale.

Sounds a lot like existing Claude integration + Caching (as most queries rely on relatively static code context)

its a bit more than that, you can clearly see that the decoding speed is super fast

Re: Zed AI

#197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, I know some people say “just let me pay for the editor” but I don’t think that’s actually a viable path. The editor is open-source, and it being open-source is great. Others can contribute, it generally helps adoption, it will probably help with getting people to author plugins, and it means if they go in an undesirable way, the community will be able to fork. So without making it non-open-source, they’d need t…

I would like us as an industry to promote paying for things we use. Crazy idea, I know. Open source is great and fun and an incredible force multiplier for the world, but when you want to do this stuff for a living, you have to charge money for it somehow, and if you're a software business, and not just software adjacent, it means charging for software.

Pay-for closed-source is profitable for about a week. Then some asshole offers a shittier but free facsimile and community contributions render it good enough to kill the original.

Re: Zed AI

#198

I just want a fast programmable text editor with a native GUI and good defaults. But that seems really tough to find, for some reason. Zed is so close, but I’d much rather see a focus on the “programmable” part and let the AI and collaboration features emerge later out of rich extensibility (i.e. as plugins, perhaps even paid plugins) than have them built-in behind a sign-in and unknown future pricing model.

The monetary incentives are not in your (and my) favor.

Re: Zed AI

#199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment is not correct. Java uses mixed Latin1/UTF-16 strings. The Latin1 mode is used for compact storage of alphanumeric text as the name suggests: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/1ebf2cf639300728ffc02478...

The internals of OpenJDK may use either Latin1 or UTF-16, but the Java API , as of Java 18, defaults to the UTF-8 character set for string operations and text codecs.[1] Just like the standard APIs of Mac OS default to UTF-8 text encoding even though CFString internally uses various different representations to optimize memory usage.[2] [1] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/18/docs/api/java.base... () [2] https:…

The macOS reference is irrelevant to Java here.

The charset defines the encoding which applies to first and foremost I/O behavior on how it treats otherwise untyped stream of bytes that are being converted to or from (UTF-16) text as stored by Java.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/400 is yesterday's news and something that .NET has been doing since long time ago (UTF8 encoding is an unconditional default starting with .NET Core 1.0 (2017)).

Whether Win32 APIs take UTF-8 or something else (well, it's usually ANSI or UTF-16) is something for the binding libraries or similar abstraction packages for a language of choice to deal with, and has rather minor impact on the overall flamegraph if you profile a sample application.

I find it strange having to defend this, but the UTF-8 vs UTF-16 argument really has no place in 2024 as dealing with popular encodings is as solved problem as it gets in all languages with adequate standard library.

Re: Zed AI

#200

I just want a fast programmable text editor with a native GUI and good defaults. But that seems really tough to find, for some reason. Zed is so close, but I’d much rather see a focus on the “programmable” part and let the AI and collaboration features emerge later out of rich extensibility (i.e. as plugins, perhaps even paid plugins) than have them built-in behind a sign-in and unknown future pricing model.

What does “native GUI” mean?

A GUI that uses native controls and platform UI conventions with the native behavior expected on the given platform, or a near-indistinguishable equivalent of that.
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